Lexic.us

Definition of Tar-wood

1. Noun. New Zealand shrub.

2. Noun. New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tar-wood

taqua-nut taqua nut taqua nuts taqueria taquerias taquito taquitos taqwa taqwacore tar

tar-and-feather tar-boil tar-brush tar-brushes tar-water tar-wood (current term) tar acne tar and feather tar boil tar camphor

tar paper tar papers tar pit tar sand tar sands tar with the same brush tara

Literary usage of Tar-wood

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Asphalts and Allied Substances: Their Occurrence, Modes of Production, Uses by Herbert Abraham (1920)
"... TAR, WOOD-TAR PITCH AND ROSIN PITCH WOOD TAR AND WOOD-TAR PITCH THIS chapter will deal with the treatment of wood, either by destructive distillation, ..."

2. Vegetable Substances: Materials of Manufactures (1833)
"In the common way a cube of six feet of tar-wood yields from two to three, and sometimes four tuns of tar : burnt by this last described method, ..."

3. Vegetable Substances: Materials of Manufactures (1833)
"In the common way a cube of sit feet of tar-wood yields from two to three, and sometimes four tuns of tar : burnt by this last described method, ..."

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